[fedora-arm] Anyone working on Mele A1000 or Allwinner A10 CPU?

[Steven A. Falco]

On 08/07/2012 12:09 PM, Scott Sullivan wrote:
> On 08/06/2012 11:59 PM, Jon wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 8:52 PM, Steven A. Falco <safalco at optonline.net> wrote:
>>> On 08/03/2012 06:12 AM, Peter Robinson wrote:
> [...]
>>>
>>> Ok - I have Fedora 17 running on the Mele.  It is quite a hack, but it
>>> is usable (yum merrily installing the dev tools as we speak).
>>>
>>> Here is the recipe:
>>>
>>> 1) grab and cross-compile a copy of the kernel from:
>>>          git://github.com/amery/linux-allwinner.git
>>>     (use branch allwinner-v3.0-android-v2 with sun4i_defconfig)
>>> 2) grab http://hands.com/~lkcl/mele-ubuntu-lucid.img.lzma and write it
>>>     to an SD card (don't forget to decompress it).  Afterwards, use
>>>     gparted to expand the ext partition to fill the SD card.
>>>
>>> 3) Mount the various partitions of the SD card on a host machine.  On
>>>     the fat partition, replace uImage with the one you just built.  On
>>>     the ext partition, blow everything away, and replace with an untar of:
>>>
>>> http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/17/Images/armhfp/Fedora-17-armhfp-console.tar.xz
>>>
>>> 4) Install the modules that go with the kernel you built to the ext
>>>     partition (into /lib/modules/3.0.38+).
>>>
>>> 5) Stick the SD card in the Mele, and it should boot.
> 
> Alternatively and Cleaner:
> 
> 1) Download A1000 hardware pack from nightly builds. This is a Kernel and Uboot pre-built.
> 
> http://rhombus-tech.net/allwinner_a10/nightly_build_images/
> 
> 2) Grab the a1x-media-create.sh Script.
> 
> # Needs to be Modified to support Fedora .zx tar archive and /lib symbolic link. Working on a patch.

The following is all that is needed for the .xz stuff.  I have
not looked at the /lib part.

--- /home/sfalco/a1x-media-create.sh	2012-08-08 14:10:38.323150167 -0400
+++ ./a1x-media-create.sh	2012-08-08 14:08:26.021655286 -0400
@@ -107,6 +107,8 @@
         sudo tar xzf ../$1
     elif [ ${fileext} == "7z" ] | [ ${fileext} == "lzma" ]; then 
         sudo 7z x ../$1
+    elif [ ${fileext} == "xz" ]; then 
+        sudo tar xJf ../$1
     else
 	echo "Unknown file extension: ${fileext}"
         popd

> 
> 3) Download the Fedora Root FS.
> 
> 4) Run media build script.
> 
> 5) Stick SD card in the Mele and it will boot.
> 
> This removes the dependence on the ubuntu image and automatically makes the partitions the correct size for the media.
> 
> 
>>> One big issue is that the built-in eth0 is not functional.  That is true
>>> of the ubuntu build as well.  To get around that, I plugged in a USB/ethernet
>>> adapter (and built the kernel module for it).  That gave me a usable eth1.
> 
> I got it to boot on Saturday using the method I outlined. I ran out of time to verify what did and didn't work.
> 
>>> This clearly needs a ton of work to be a proper Fedora installation,
>>> but at least it is a start...
> 
> Yes, certainly getting easier.
> 
>> Sounds like a good start.
>>
>> We could probably just use the resize script in our image to expand
>> partition and resize ext on firstboot?
> 
> No need with the creation script from the nightly builds. Otherwise we could re-purpose the scripts form the Raspberry Pi remix.
> 
>> We might also consider making a wiki page for this device, ensure to
>> mention this is unsupported.
> 
> Where do you want it?
>